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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition. Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects. The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Creating Table and Matrix visuals

Table and Matrix visuals are appropriate when visibility of precise, individual values are needed, or when data is viewed at a detailed level, such as in individual transactions. Table visuals in Power BI conform to the classic "list" report format of columns and rows but support powerful cross-highlighting and formatting options, including conditional formatting. Matrix visuals include Table visual features and correspond to the layout and general functionality of pivot tables in Excel: two-dimensional representations of measures with the ability to drill up and down the row and column axes.

In this recipe, the various capabilities of Table and Matrix visualizations are demonstrated, including conditional formatting, drill-down, and cross-highlighting.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open the CH4_R6.pbix file and save the file as CH4_R7.pbix.
  2. Switch to the Scratch page and use Ctrl...